To read: Alex Haley, Racines. // Kunta Kinté is the story Haley’s grand father told by his grand mother.

EYE > witness / to experience / to feel / to remember / to record

I > the messenger / the writer who comments / organizes / lies ??

Women’s voices :

Virginia Woolf – A Room of ones Own. > stream of consciousness

Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall Paper

Harlem Renaissance :

W. E. B Du BOIS

Langston Hughes

The Help

Toni Morisson

Churchill wanted to set an examplewhereas benjamin Franklin wanted to live his life again thanks to writing.

Maya Angelou thinks that facts can obscure the truth so in her autobiography she focuses on feelings / perceptions / introspection and her inner self. (fort intérieur) Circumstances and context can be ignored to send a universal message.

Ex. I wake up everyday

at 6.30. I live in Paris , I work at LMA , and micro lycée, Savigny …> only teachers in Paris will know.

Focus on Harriet’s feelings for her grandma. What happened to her ? Anything shocking?

Harriet’s feelings for her mistress. Anything shocking?

What was Harriet’s privilege?

When does she address the readers? What’s her message?

Abolition in slavery in the US – A. Lincoln – 1865 Abolitionists struggled to abolish slavery. /// Slavery was followed by Segregation by law which ended in 1964 but still exists today ( school segregation because of gap between rich White communities and ghettos)